"Actually, this... has to do with this body of mine!" A trace of hesitation flashed through Second Better's eyes at Li Xiaoya's words, and he spoke in a low voice. After a pause, he added, "Surely you've noticed!" Seeing Li Xiaoya's puzzled expression, he spread his hands and continued, "This is no longer the body you reconstructed for me back then, Brother Li. It's a new body...!"
"Hmm! It has to do with that?" Taken aback by this unexpected answer, Li Xiaoya asked in confusion...
"Yes! It certainly does!" Second Better replied. Then, rather than explain, he paused and asked another question. "Do you remember what I told you back when we were in the Human Realm?"
"What you told me in the Human Realm? Could you have recovered that body from the Human Realm?" Something stirred in Li Xiaoya's mind as he asked...
"Of course not! My body in the Human Realm was destroyed long ago!" Second Better rolled his eyes, then hurried on after a pause. "Forget it. I'd better start from the beginning... After repairing the Skyvault Flying Boat, I first went to the Ancient Demon Continent..."
Second Better continued...
What followed was a long account of his trip to the Ancient Demon Continent, the Artifact Refining Masters he had met there, its wondrous Artifact Refining techniques, and so on...
Li Xiaoya could only listen helplessly. Once Second Better started talking about Artifact Refining, his words poured out in an endless torrent. Still, Li Xiaoya was not impatient. Rather, he felt relieved. After so many years apart, Second Better was still the same Second Better, even though his cultivation had soared so dramatically...
Even after Second Better had described five or six hundred years of travels on the Ancient Demon Continent, he still had not mentioned advancing